1. أَبلِغ لَدَيكَ عامِراً إِن لَقيتَها

    فَقَد بَلَغَت دارُ الحِفاظِ قَرارَها

    Tell ʿĀmir, if you meet her where you are:

    For the house of honor has reached its utmost limit.

  2. رَحَلنا مِنَ الأَجبالِ أَجبالِ طَيِّءِ

    نَسوقُ النِساءَ عوذَها وَعِشارَها

    We departed from the mountains, the mountains of Ṭayyiʾ,

    driving the women, those newly delivered and those heavy with child.

  3. تَرى كُلَّ بَيضاءِ العَوارِضِ طَفلَةٍ

    تُفَرّي إِذا شالَ السِماكُ صِدارَها

    You see every tender, white-toothed young woman

    tearing her bodice when al-Simāk rises high.

  4. وَقَد عَلِمَت أَن لا اِنقِلابَ لِرَحلِها

    إِذا تَرَكَت مِن آخِرِ اللَيلِ دارَها

    And she knows her saddle will never return

    once she leaves her home in the last hours of night.